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Mary Frank (Mary Lockspeiser Frank)

 
Mary Frank

American 20th-21st century American sculptor, painter, and photographer
(London, England, 1933 – )

From D.C. Moore Gallery biography: Born in London, England, in 1933 Mary Frank moved to the United States with her family in 1940. In the early 1950s she studied with Hans Hoffman and Max Beckmann. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor, painter, photographer and gifted ceramic artist. Without allegiance to any particular way of working or medium, Frank is fueled by her ever present urge for direct and honest expression. Frank's process begins with some form of abstraction from which she teases out what she describes as a pre-existing time and atmosphere where events can take place. Her recurring imagery act as an alphabet, combined in order to evoke feelings of grief, love, sorrow, ecstasy, mourning and exultation.

6 objects

Fantasy Bird

n.d.
bronze
Gift of Walter K. Gutman, Class of 1924
1985.58.3
 

We Soldiers of All Nations

2003
print on paper
Bequest of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
2011.69.165
 

Poppy #1

1976
monoprint on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.118
 

Amaryllis

1977
monoprint on two joined sheets of paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.119
 

Cutout and Envelope addressed to Hilton Kramer

1983
paper
Bequest of Hilton and Esta Kramer
2021.73.48.a-.b
 

Cutout

n.d.
paper
Bequest of Hilton and Esta Kramer
2021.73.48.a